and our regional authors such as Jiří Frýzek, Josef Lukášek, Antonín Špinler, V. Šplíchal, J.Jech, J.Š. Kubín but also B. Němcová and others in their legends and fairy tales with illustrations by Jarmila Haldová and other authors.
From the legend…
About the ghost on the bridge
Almost fifty years ago, it was claimed all around the area that on the bridge over the stream between Zelenka and Jadrná, a terrible rattling of the chain could always be heard at midnight. At night, therefore, people were afraid to go this way. In addition, some vowed to see a gray man nearby accompanying a traveler. The possibility of solving the problem, however, existed, it was enough to pass only between the wagons. (From the world of legends. Jiří Frýzek)
About a glowing treasure
The 72-year-old Josef Pábel from Bedřichovka told the following legend.
Parents often mentioned the treasure, which was hidden from their cottage and shone quite clearly in the dark. One full moon night, they saw an unknown man trying to retrieve the treasure. But the treasure hunter must have been very unpleasantly surprised at the time when he found nothing but glass shards.
(From the world of legends. Jiří Frýzek)
About a man named Vogelhans
Many years ago, Vogelhans, a powerful wizard in this part of the Eagle Mountains, lived near Bedřichovka. He lived in an ordinary wicker hut hidden in the thicket. He was a rather strange man. He smoked two long cigars at once every night, so it looked like the forest was on fire.
He could also be invisible. He often settled on the carriage and made it so that the horses did not pull the load. He liked to severely punish the wayfarers who mocked him. He also frightened women many times while picking blueberries.
On the contrary, he helped poor and oppressed people. One day a long and harsh winter came, during which a lot of snow fell. On the way to Zieleniec, a woman with a glass bag stuck. In the middle of the deep forest, she found that she must have lost her way. After a while, a hunter appeared in front of her, making her way, but suddenly disappeared in front of Zieleniec. The happy woman everywhere claimed that she was definitely accompanied by Vogelhans himself, disguised as a hunter, and that he had saved her. Later, Vogelhans was captured and imprisoned in the Kladsko fortress.
(From the world of legends. Jiří Frýzek)
The legend of a mortal skull
The Kunštát cemetery is associated with the legend of a mortal skull, which was "borrowed" from the ossuary by a young Schreiber, an avid lottery player from a settlement north of Kunštát. He kept the skull on the ground at home, which was supposed to bring him luck in the game. At night, however, the whole building was awakened by the rumble of a rolling skull down the stairs. Schreiber immediately took the skull back to Kunštát, but when he returned home, his mortal head grinned at him again from the bench by the stove. Old Schreiber therefore tried to take her away with a piece of bench, but he did just as well as his son. Only the summoned priest could take her back to the ossuary permanently after making a cross over the skull. Before she left the Schreiber building, she said, "If it had been my brother's head, you would have experienced something!"
It is said that moaning and whispering are still heard from the Kunštát cemetery. This is lamented by the souls of those whose skulls were used in a similar way by a lottery talisman.
(The legend is mentioned in the book Grossmutter erzählt from 1940, the retold of which was published in the book by Eva Koudelková - Grandmother's Story)